Alexander C. Smith

Longtime Rochester general practitioner dies at 94Dr. Alexander C. Smith, age 94, of Estes Road, Rochester, died peacefully at home on December 3, 2017, surrounded by family.Alex was born in 1923 in Nyack, New York, the eldest of three children of Dr. George A. Smith and Helene Milhomme Smith. He was a 1945 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1947 earned his doctor of medicine degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He completed post-graduate medical training in surgery, general medicine, and pathology at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, additional surgical training at the Cleveland Clinic, and obstetrics training at the Providence Lying-In Hospital. Before finishing his medical training, Alex served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, having enlisted shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was commissioned as Lieutenant JG and served as a corpsman at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Boston.In 1950 Alex married...